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Cheer Glossary

Providing tools to help you succeed in All Star
  • Aerial
  • Airborne/Aerial
  • Airborne Tumbling Skill
  • All 4s
  • Assisted-Flipping Stunt
  • Backbend*
  • Backward Roll
  • Ball-X
  • Barrel Roll
  • Base*
  • Basket Toss
  • Block Cartwheel*
  • Brace/Bracer*
  • Braced Flip
  • Cartwheel
  • Catcher
  • Chair
  • Coed Style Toss
  • Cradle*
  • Cupie
  • Dismount*
  • Dive Roll
  • Downward Inversion
  • Drop
  • Extended Arm Level
  • Extended Stunt*
  • Flat Back
  • Flat Body*
  • Flip*
  • Flipping Toss
  • Floor Stunt
  • Flyer*
  • Forward Roll
  • Free Flipping Stunt
  • Free Release Move
  • Front Tuck
  • Full
  • Ground Level
  • Hand/Arm Connection
  • Handspring
  • Handstand
  • Helicopter
  • Horizontal Axis
  • Initiation/Initiating
  • Inversion/Inverted*
  • Jump
  • Jump Skill
  • Kick Double
  • Kick Full
  • Layout
  • Leap Frog*
  • Leg/Foot Connection
  • Liberty
  • Load In
  • Log Roll*
  • Multi-based Stunt
  • New Base(s)
  • Non-Inverted Position
  • Nugget
  • Onodi
  • Original Base(s)
  • Pancake
  • Paper Dolls
  • Pike
  • Platform Position
  • Prep Level
  • Primary Support
  • Prone Position
  • Prop*
  • Punch Front
  • Pyramid
  • Rebound
  • Release Move*
  • Rewind
  • Round Off
  • Running Tumbling
  • Second Level
  • Series Front or Back Handsprings
  • Shoulder Level
  • Shoulder Sit
  • Shoulder Stand
  • Shushunova
  • Single Based Stunt
  • Single Leg Stunt*
  • Split Catch
  • Sponge Toss
  • Spotter*
  • Standing Tumbling
  • Step Out
  • Straddle Lift
  • Straight Cradle
  • Straight Ride
  • Stunt
  • Suspended Roll*
  • T-Lift
  • Tension Roll/Drop*
  • Three Quarter (3/4) Front Flip
  • Tic-Tock
  • Toe/Leg Pitch
  • Top Person
  • Toss*
  • Tower Pyramid
  • Transitional Pyramid
  • Transitional Stunt
  • Traveling Toss
  • Tuck Position
  • Tumbling
  • Twist/Twisting*
  • Two-High Pyramid
  • Two and One Half High Pyramid
  • Upright
  • V-Sit
  • Vertical Axis
  • Waist Level
  • Waist Level Cradle*
  • Walkover*
  • Whip
  • Wrap Around*
  • X-Out

* indicates either the term does not have a video or the video uses an outdated definition, but the example is still useful.

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